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Okay, but that explains why it's really negative for Open AI and its customers. That's not in itself the same thing as it being absurd. Someone might equally say setting this order aside would be absurd from the point of view of the New York Times, couldn't they?

This will actually make me use lost GPT less… completely defeats the purpose of temporary chats

You're a star, if you're ever in West Cork the beers are on me! Beamish, obvs. Many thanks.

“a massive competitive disadvantage for OpenAI … customers of their APIs may well make the decision to switch to other providers who can offer retention policies that aren't subverted by this court order” Yes.

The output frequently includes enough context that you could guess most of the input

To determine under what conditions it quotes the source material, and how much of it that it adds relative to the user prompt. There's a big difference between the prompt "explain this article [copy-pasted block from the article]" and "explain x" where it spontaneously recites an article.